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I start with the idea of constructing a treehouse and end with a skyscraper made of wood. – Norman Mailer

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The night before I left Las Vegas I walked out in the desert to look at the moon. There was a jeweled city on the horizon, spires rising in the night, but the jewels were diadems of electric and the spires were the neon of signs ten stories high. – Norman Mailer

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The purpose of literature is to turn blood into ink. – T.S. Eliot

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The expression “to write something down” suggests a descent of thought to the fingers whose movements immediately falsify it. – William Gass, “Habitations of the Word,” Kenyon Review, October 1984

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Books want to be born: I never make them. They come to me and insist on being written, and on being such and such. – Samuel Butler

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I would hurl words into this darkness and wait for an echo, and if an echo sounded, no matter how faintly, I would send other words to tell, to march, to fight, to create a sense of hunger for life that gnaws in us all. – Richard Wright, American Hunger, 1977

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God hath given you one face, and you make yourselves another. – William Shakespeare

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You have to learn the rules of the game. And then you have to play better than anyone else. – Albert Einstein

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Organisations are now confronted with two sources of change: the traditional type that is initiated and managed and external changes over which no one has control. – Margaret J. Wheatley

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When youve paid your debt to society, you need to be reconnected and re-engaged in society. – Tom Vilsack

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